Dateline: DAR house was once relocated 6 blocks via logs

5:39 AM,
Jul. 24, 2013

Written by

Anthony P. Musso
| For the Poughkeepsie Journal

The 18th-century Colonial-style clapboard home at 77 Livingston St. has served as the Daughters of the American Revolution Chancellor Livingston Chapter House since 1930.

It was presented to the chapter by its founding member and first regent, Helen Reed de Laporte, who purchased the home two years earlier.

The structure is famous for being the residence of Janet Livingston and Gen. Richard Montgomery from their marriage in 1773 through 1775, when he became the first Continental Army officer to be killed in the Revolutionary War. ...